Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall order. But it was just what the L.S.U. Board of Supervisors had in mind. For months during 1947, the 14 supervisors, most of them appointees of "reform" Governors Sam Houston Jones and James Houston Davis, had been looking for an out-of-state educator who was neither a veteran of past L.S.U. ruckuses* with Huey Long or his political heirs, nor a henchman of Huey's brother Earl, who is now governor of Louisiana...
...Blue Grass Stakes, Old Rockport had the same jockey who rode him to victory in the Santa Anita, sensational young (18) Apprentice Gordon Glisson. But soon after the four-horse field charged from the starting gate, Glisson found himself boxed in by three veteran riders, Johnny Longden, Ted Atkinson and Conn McCreary. The cagey veterans had the young "bug" rider where they wanted him, and they kept him there...
Harvard's chapter of the American Veteran's Committee unanimously passed a proposal last night to award the $850 Evans Carlson Memorial Fund to one or two Asiatic students studying in the University. At the same meeting Roy F. Gootenberg '49 was elected next year's chairman...
...body of research associate, Paul K. Schiller, dead since he fell into a crevasse while skiing Sunday afternoon at Tuckerman's Ravine, was recovered yesterday by a veteran band of mountaineers...
...decided to launch their own fund-raising campaign. The student council called a meeting of the student body, and undergraduate speakers presented the facts. Said Student Council President Louis Salebra, Rutlander and veteran: if the college failed to finish out the year, students who planned to transfer elsewhere for their junior and senior years (and most of them did) might lose an entire year's credits...